Pleasure Quotes

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)

Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Buying is profound pleasure.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure.

It's like pain, this pleasure.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.